Mykon Launch Student Design Competition
Added: (Mon Jul 12 2010)
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Cambridgeshire-based Mykon has launched its annual student design competition. Now in its third year, the competition aims to discover the country’s most promising young designers and give the winners a head start within the architectural and design industries.
The competition is open to students throughout the UK who are studying design-based courses. The three top entrants will each be rewarded with the opportunity to complete work experience at Mykon, while the overall winner will receive £500 and the chance to have their design manufactured and displayed in a top London location.
Mykon provide a range of interior design and architectural solutions predominantly using aluminium honeycomb technology and are looking for an innovative design utilising these products. The design must include 80% (±10%) of either B Clear or Press Load panels, a design brief, and of course individuality, creativity and vision!
With such a loose design brief Mykon hopes to encourage the best from young designers and allow them to be inventive without boundaries.
A previous finalist, James Whitfield, so impressed Mykon with his design ability that he was subsequently offered a year long work placement. James, who is working towards a Product Design BA at the University of Huddersfield, has been given the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects including the Mykon stand for the 2010 and 2011 Surface Design Shows at the Design Centre in Islington, a motorcycle showroom layout and design, layout and racking design for a new warehouse, producing a manual for a Wind Tunnel for testing F1 cars, and producing artists drawings for our proposed extended headquarters.
James says that “the time I have spent at the company has been greatly enjoyable and rewarding, working on a large selection of projects that will definitely aid me in my last year of study. Working and project managing my own projects in a fast paced manufacturing environment was sometimes a challenge, but the end results were always worth the work put in. From the experiences of the past year I am definitely ready for anything that the wider world of work has to offer!”
Mykon would like to showcase more young design talent in 2010 and hopes that the already exceptional high standards of entries from last years competition will be surpassed to make the Student Competition even bigger and better than before. For further information or to register for the competition, please visit our website today at www.mykon.com
The competition will be judged by John-Paul Numes, Head of Education Projects, RIBA www.architecture.com , Shelley Mosco, Managing Director of Green Graphite Designs www.greengraphite.com , and Dr Mike Ashmead, MD of Mykon.